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Online Research & Teaching with Africa Maps: Tips, Techniques, Examples & Resources T. C. Weiskel Dipl. Soc. Anthrop (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MLS, FRGS

Accessing Historical Maps of Africa for Research and Teaching Tips & Techniques for Online Use & Citation The Africa Map Circle

The Africa Map Circle

Why Africa Maps Matter • The African continent • These maps therefore was arguably the first require international one in the world to be and multi-cultural mapped in its full teams of students and outline. scholars to be analyzed adequately. • Africa maps were largely created by • Digital technology now non-Africans. makes it possible to share and analyze these • …therefore, Africa maps maps around the globe. can only be understood as multi-cultural documents . The Africa Map Circle The result is that the collaborative study of Africa maps can now provide a new paradigm for international and multicultural teaching & learning.

The Africa Map Circle

So let’s take a look briefly at six different online historical map resources on Africa… ….starting with the https://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=Africa

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf 8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=Africa+maps#

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa

https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/8132f520-e3fb-012f- c5b6-0019b9e633c5-f

https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/collections/1c 2e2200-c12d-4c7f-8b87-a935c349898a

…. and finally, one of the most powerful and immediately useful online libraries in the in the world…. http://www.afriterra.org/

So let’s take a look briefly at six different online historical map resources on Africa… Logo Online Collection Online Access The Library of Congress – https://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=Africa Digital Maps of Africa NYPL- Digital Collections, Africa https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/sea Maps rch/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywor ds=Africa+maps# Stanford University - Maps of https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps- Africa Online of-africa

So let’s take a look briefly at six different online historical map resources on Africa… Logo Online Collection Online Access The University of Illinois - Maps https://digital.library.illinois.edu/colle of Africa to 1900 ctions/8132f520-e3fb-012f-c5b6- 0019b9e633c5-f Northwestern University - https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/c Digital Collections ollections/1c2e2200-c12d-4c7f-8b87- a935c349898a The Afriterra Foundation http://www.afriterra.org/

Responding to Our Current Circumstance…. • The COVID-19 lockdown has radically altered research, teaching, and learning in African studies at all levels -- from K-12 classrooms through advanced post-doctoral archival research.

Responding to Our Current Circumstance…. • The COVID-19 lockdown has radically altered research, teaching, and learning in African studies at all levels -- from K-12 classrooms through advanced post-doctoral archival research. • For the foreseeable future it will no longer be possible to watch a movie together in classroom, nor can groups take field-trips to museums to view important Africa collections, nor will it be possible to assemble in auditoriums to hear from a visiting guest speaker reporting on current circumstances in Africa.

Responding to Our Current Circumstance…. • Further, while African studies has had to go “virtual” almost overnight, there are, so far, very few online “textbooks” that are accessible to assist teachers to design “virtual” classroom materials and teach under COVID-19 circumstances.

Responding to Our Current Circumstance…. • Further, while African studies has had to go “virtual” almost overnight, there are, so far, very few online “textbooks” that are accessible to assist teachers to design “virtual” classroom materials and teach under COVID-19 circumstances. • Fortunately, online African map libraries can help in this circumstance….. Both faculty AND students can begin now to use these online libraries to build new online curricula for learning & teaching about Africa….

For further discussion of these issues, please attend the online panel discussion during the African Studies Association 2020 online Annual Meetings.

Online Research & Teaching with Africa Maps: Tips, Techniques, Examples & Resources T. C. Weiskel Dipl. Soc. Anthrop (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), MLS, FRGS